Guernsey Wrap

CONSTRUCTION

• Wrap is worked flat from end to end.

GAUGE

• DK Version: 20 stitches & 32 rows = 4″ in textured pattern, after stretch-blocking
• Worsted Version: 14 stitches & 24 rows = 4″ in textured pattern, after stretch-blocking

NEEDLES

DK Version

• One pair of straight needles or a 32″ circular needle* in size needed to obtain gauge listed
• Suggested needle size: 4 mm (US 6)

Worsted Version

• One pair of straight needles or a 32″ circular needle* in size needed to obtain gauge listed
• Suggested needle size: 5 mm (US 8)

*Knitter’s preferred style of needle may be used

FINISHED DIMENSIONS

• DK Version 16½” [42 cm] x 77 ½” [197 cm] rectangle
• Worsted Version 16½” [42 cm] x 77 ¼” [197 cm] rectangle
• Measurements taken from relaxed fabric after stretch-blocking.

Please note: the stitch patterns in this garment are charted only.

YARDAGE

• DK Version: approximately 1160 total yards of DK weight yarn 
• Worsted Version: approximately 630 yards of worsted weight wool yarn

YARN


DK Weight Version

• 8 skeins of Brooklyn Tweed Arbor (100% American Targhee Wool; 145 yards per 50 grams) —OR—
• 9 skeins of Brooklyn Tweed Re•Ply Rambouillet (100% American Rambouillet Wool; 130 yards/119 meters per 45 grams)
• Photographed in Re•Ply Rambouillet Prickly Pear and Arbor Degas

Worsted Weight Version

• 5 skeins of Brooklyn Tweed Shelter (100% American Targhee-Columbia Wool; 140 yards per 50 grams)
• Photographed in Shelter Soot

Tutorials for all special techniques listed below are included in the pattern: 

• Sewn Bind Off (Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Method)

1 September 2023: GERMAN VERSION

Auf Seite 6 sollten die Anweisungen unter „Hauptstoff“ lauten:
„1. - 78. Reihe von Strickschrift A zwei Mal stricken. [...]
Nun stricken Sie die 1. - 58. Reihe von Strickschrift A noch einmal.
Stricken Sie die 1. - 24. Reihe von Strickschrift B einmal.
Stricken Sie die 21. - 78. Reihe von Strickschrift C einmal.
Anschließend stricken Sie die 1. - 58. Reihe von Strickschrift C zweimal."

19 October 2016: Version 2.0

The pattern was regauged to work with Arbor yarn, and new imagery of the sample in Arbor was added.

28 October 2011: (Version 1.0): 

Sequencing of Chart C instructions were edited to create a perfect mirror image of each side. Namely, the pattern repeats should be:

Rows X-X (as listed) of Chart A two times,

Rows X-X of Chart A once more,

Rows X-X of Chart B once,

Rows X-X of Chart C once,

Rows X-X of Chart C two times.